Taking a cue from ML this new year

I'm pretty sure it was Martin Luther who said that he prayed an hour every morning before he started his day. Unless he had a really busy day--then he prayed for two hours. I plan to take my prayer cues from Martin in 2009, because we're going to have a really busy year.

We finally got to our house today after one two-hour flight, followed by an eight-hour flight and a three-hour ride home--courtesy of a wreck on the highway between the airport and home. I'm up at midnight because after going to sleep by 6:30 p.m., Maddie woke up at 11. After a little time playing in her room, a snack and some reading, I finally got her back to sleep, but now I can't seem to get back there. Always takes a few days to make this transition.

Skip will be traveling quite a bit during the first four months of the year and we, as a family, have quite a bit of travel planned for our last six months in England. We'll have several visitors (last chance for London. book now!) coming and then we will need to figure out what's going and what's staying (Skip and I are already having disagreements about that one!) before our move in late June. Then we'll be transitioning back to life in the States, a new school for Maddie and possibly a new job for me. And that's what we know of! Who knows what other triumphs and tragedies will crop up along the way. We plan to make the most of the last six months of our European adventure, but then I think we'll be happy to settle in to a more "normal" kind of life for awhile. It will be interesting to discover what our "normal" is these days.

We learned on New Year's Day that my Uncle Pat (husband to Aunt Rennie) died after a long battle with Parkinsons and Alzheimers. His service was today in Bastrop, LA. I have really good memories of Uncle Pat and was sorry I couldn't be there today.

I am really enjoying the new camera that I got for Christmas and will post some more pictures of our time in Norfolk tomorrow or Monday.

Hope everyone has a hopeful and peaceful new year.